Through such research, investigators are hoping to identify useful systems to simulate the interactions
between an animal and its environment, and find out whether the interactions within a given system are comparable to how humans interact with their environment.
The interaction
between animals and their environments is the engine that keeps the planet healthy for all of us.
Not exact matches
The constitution of a society prescribes the forms of justice only when it provides for that kind of interaction among individuals,
and between individuals
and the physical
environment, which creates the human mind,
and which sustains that scope of understanding, power of action
and richness of appreciation which is distinctively human in contrast to the lower
animals.
Such types of
animal minds, evolved in relation to a reciprocal interaction
between the selection of
environment by
animal and of
animal by
environment, are what we refer to rather crudely as instincts.
C. H. Waddington sees an interaction
between the purposive behavior of
animals and their
environment that was inadequately recognized in more reductionistic interpretations of neo-Darwinism.
The last element of analysis has to do with the particular theological heritage that has influenced many of our congregations, especially in regard to two issues The first is the false spirituality that sees little connection
between faith
and questions of material well - being, the
environment,
and so forth ~ The sermon deals with that by stressing God's concern for all of creation, even the
animals.
Shedd Aquarium along with Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Illinois, Illinois Institute of Technology
and the United States Department of Agriculture started this project to explore the unique relationships
between the countless unseen living organisms that share our exhibit
environments with the
animals that live there.
This approach allowed them to create a metabolic index for each species, which sets clearly defined limits for oxygen - breathing sea life: «Marine
animals like eelpouts, rock crabs
and Atlantic cod can only survive in
environments with enough oxygen for them to increase their metabolism to
between two
and five times their resting metabolic rate if need be.
Some time
between 700
and 600 million years ago, early multicellular
animals appear to have burrowed
and grazed the mats to destruction — showing that humans are by no means the first to overexploit their
environment.
This study agitates the feud
between conservationists, who fear free - roaming cats are devastating wildlife,
and animal welfare groups that argue neutering feral cats is a better solution than removing them from the
environment altogether.
Some chemical issues that Geoff?s team deals with have a high - profile, like endocrine - disrupting substances; many chemicals, both natural
and man - made, are known to adversely effect the hormone systems of humans
and animals,
and there is growing concern about the link
between the presence of these substances in their
environment and their harm to wildlife.
Moreover, in working with lemurs in their native habitats, the researchers could better understand how the
animals interact with their surroundings
and the relationship
between genes
and the
environment.
Research efforts are aimed at enhancing the quality of life for
animals and people, improving the productivity of poultry
and livestock,
and preserving a healthy interface
between wildlife
and people in the
environment they share.
After many months of looking
and listening for correlations
between lots of different behaviors
and cell activity, I began to realize that the major correlate was not what the
animal was doing, whether it was eating or exploring an object or carrying out a simple tasks such as pressing a lever to get food, but something about where it was doing these things in the
environment.
Given these parallels
between mammals
and insects, we expect our findings in Drosophila to provide a framework for understanding the inter-organ communication that allows nutrient sensing organs to coordinate insulin secretion with the nutritional
environment in a broad range of
animals.
Given the conflicting results, the choice
between conventional
and organic chicken comes down to a matter of preference — if
animal welfare
and the
environment are a priority, organic poultry may be worth the splurge.
I'd like to see a comparison
between chicken broths made from
animals from different farms
and environments.
In addition, this notice addresses the general question of whether carriers may require health documentation for carriage of service
animals on flights from the U.S. into countries other than the U.K.. On February 26, 2007, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Aviation Enforcement Office issued a guidance document to assist carriers
and passengers with disabilities in complying with both U.S.
and U.K. regulations concerning the transport of service
animals on flights from the U.S. to the U.K. by: 1) explaining the procedures passengers must follow to comply with the U.K.'s Pet Travel Scheme (PETS); 2) explaining the procedures U.S.
and foreign carriers must follow to obtain an approved Required Method of Operation (RMOP) from the U.K.'s Department for
Environment Food
and Rural Affairs (DEFRA);
and 3) notifying both U.S.
and U.K. carriers operating flights
between the U.S.
and the U.K. that failure to obtain an approved RMOP from DEFRA will be considered a violation of the ACAA by the Department's Aviation Enforcement Office
and may subject such carriers to enforcement action.1 The purpose of this notice is to respond to inquiries from airlines
and the traveling public since issuance of the February notice regarding foreign requirements for health 1 72
The students split their donations
between the Green Belt Movement
and the Wildlife Conservation Society
and now see that the benefits of planting trees not only positively effect humans, but also help protect
animals and the
environment in which we all live.
Letting the Coalitions Lead PIJAC's goal is to create the best regulatory
and legislative
environment for improving the bond
between people
and companion
animals.
The One Health approach recognizes the growing connection
between the health of
animals, people
and the
environment.
Foster parents are always needed for cats, kittens, dogs
and puppies — from orphaned kittens who need round - the - clock feedings to
animals who find the shelter
environment too stressful —
and everything in
between.
A number of events can cause anxiety
and trigger urine marking, including the presence of new objects, furniture or luggage in a dog's
environment, the departure of a resident from a dog's home, a new person moving into the home,
and conflict
between a dog
and people or other
animals in the home.
The link
between stress
and disease in cats is well - established,
and it's hard to imagine a more stressful
environment for a cat than an
animal shelter.
Learn the connection
between this awesome
animal advocate of yesteryear,
and Max A Pooch the Canine Superhero to the
Environment.
The American Humane Conservation program's extensive criteria exhaustively verify the many dimensions of
animal welfare
and well - being, with areas of evaluation including: excellent health
and housing; positive social interactions within groups of
animals, as well as
between animals and handlers; safe
and stimulating
environments, with concern for factors such as appropriate lighting, sound levels, air quality,
and thermoregulation;
and evidence of thorough preparation
and protocols established to prevent
and manage medical or operational emergencies.
We go to great lengths to assure a good match
between an
animal and the new family
environment.
This is why we start off at your puppy's home,
and then once the communication
between owner
and puppy is built, we then counsel you on the best ways to introduce your puppy to new people,
animals,
environments, etc..
It is spread by contact with respiratory secretions but can survive in the
environment and direct contact
between animals is not necessary.
L214 understands
animal issues as connected to other issues, such as public health
and the
environment,
and they do some multi-issue advocacy that emphasizes the intersections
between animal advocacy
and the interests of other advocacy movements.
This helps to keep the
animals healthy
and prevents the spread of disease
between animals housed in the close - quarters of a shelter
environment.
Glen Highland Farm, Inc is a 501c3 non-profit organization, dedicated to the rescue of abandoned
and unwanted Border Collies
and Border Collie mixes,
and to fostering the human /
animal bond through new levels of awareness
and connections to the heart, in particular promoting the principles of non-violence
between children
and their
environment through work with the rescue dogs at the Farm in Camp Border Collie for Kids.
To strengthen the bonds
between pets
and people by offering an enriching
environment for our
animals, providing learning opportunities for our community,
and matching the right
animal to the right forever home.
«The mission of this caucus is to strengthen the humane bond
between people
and animals in working
environments, our homes, hospitals, educational settings, the wild,
and agriculture,» said Congressman Bilirakis.
If the breeder has them longer than 8 weeks, or if you bring the dog home
between 8
and 16 weeks the puppies should be exposed to multiple stimulation, people, other
animals, children
and even different
environments.
In an
environment of breed discrimination, the breed identification of a dog can have serious consequences with municipal authorities,
animal shelters, landlords,
and insurers, all of which will compromise the bond
between a family
and their dogs.
Kevin Esch, Iowa State University, D09CA - 911 Kevin Esch, a veterinarian completing a master's degree in public health, recognizes the ways in which
environment influences disease transmission
between animals and people.
His digital photographs, which show live or taxidermied
animals Photoshopped onto various natural
and human - made landscape
environments, blur boundaries
between the real
and unreal,
animal and human
and beauty
and brutality.
Laura Bernstein (Brooklyn, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist who constructs scenarios
and vignettes through immersive installation, performance,
and video in which her fictional characters
and creatures engage with their
environment, exploring the relationship
between human
and animal, exemplary
and freakish, public ritual
and private behavior.
With a strong research grounding, their socially engaged projects explore contemporary relationships
between human
and non-human
animals in the contexts of history, culture
and the
environment.
Known for his monumental wall reliefs
and sculptures of
animals from the 1970s, American artist Bernard Langlais (1921 — 1977) created a diverse oeuvre of paintings, sculptures
and environments that shifted regularly
and freely
between abstraction
and figuration — a shift that reflects Langlais» constant effort to reconcile his rural roots (in Maine)
and keen sense of place with postwar artistic movements
and ideologies.
Icelandic
and UK artists Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir
and Mark Wilson describe their collaborative practice, which they have conducted since 2001, as «socially engaged projects that explore contemporary relationships
between human
and non-human
animals in the contexts of history, culture
and the
environment.»
This body of work explores the complex relationship that exists
between man
and animal sharing terrain, the hunter
and the hunted, as both struggle to adapt to their changing
environments.
Here, the figures dominate their surrounding
environment: while oscillating
between submission
and threat, human
and animal, they haunt the pictorial plane.
The book that launched the modern environmental movement: a biologist's examination of the connections
between the proliferation of toxins into the
environment and their health — human, plant,
and animal — consequences.